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Quotes about Wisdom

When you're in love, you're capable of learning everything and knowing things you had never dared even to think, because love is the key to understanding of all the the mysteries.
— Paulo Coelho
The wise are wise only because they love. And the foolish are foolish only because they think they can understand love.
— Paulo Coelho
We always have a tendency to see those things that do not exist and to be blind to the great lessons that are right there before our eyes.
— Paulo Coelho
I've been through all this before,' he says to his heart. " 'Yes, you have been through all this before,' replies his heart. 'But you have never been beyond it.
— Paulo Coelho
It is possible to avoid pain? Yes, but you'll never learn anything. Is it possible to know something without ever having experiencing it? Yes, but it will never truly be part of you.
— Paulo Coelho
it's best to accept life as it really is and not as I imagined it to be
— Paulo Coelho
we're allowed to make a lot of mistakes in our lives, except the mistake that destroy us
— Paulo Coelho
The wise men understood that this natural world is only an image and a copy of paradise. The existence of this world is simply a guarantee that there exists a world that is perfect. God created the world so that, through its visible objects, men could understand his spiritual teachings and the marvels of his wisdom.
— Paulo Coelho
Believe that if Allah wants you to know something, someone will tell you.
— Paulo Coelho
You came so that you could learn about your dreams, said the old woman. And dreams are the language of God. When he speaks in our language, I can interpret what he has said. But if he speaks in the language of the soul, it is only you who can understand.
— Paulo Coelho
Everything will happen as was written by the Lord, replied the prophet. There are moments when tribulations occur in our lives, and we cannot avoid them. But they are there for some reason. What reason? That is a question we cannot answer before, or even during the trials. Only when we have overcome them do we understand why they were there.
— Paulo Coelho
The soil needs the seed and the seed needs the soil. The one only has meaning with the other. It is the same thing with human beings. When male knowledge joins with female transformation, then the great magical union is created, and its name is wisdom. Wisdom means both to know and to transform.
— Paulo Coelho